Bandai Co., Ltd. is a Japanese company that produced the Pippin Atmark and @WORLD consoles. Bandai also produced consoles for Katz Media as an OEM.[1][2]
Bandai CEO Makoto Yamashina (山科誠) selected Apple Computer's Macintosh as the basis of the Pippin due to its ease of use.[3] On December 13, 1994 in Tokyo, Japan, Apple announced its partnership with Bandai to develop the Pippin platform.[1] By the time of its launch in 1996, Bandai had spent $93 million on marketing and development.[4]
Subsidiaries
- Bandai Digital Entertainment Company (BDEC) published software titles for the Pippin platform in Japan and the United States. Some cross-platform titles were also released by BDEC for Macintosh and Windows.[1]
- Emotion Digital Software published titles for platforms other than the Pippin.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bandai Pippin FAQ, The Mac Geek.
- ↑ Bandai and Katz Media announce cooperation to develop European Pippin Market, Katz Media. Archived on 1997-07-13.
- ↑ Interview - 'We Sell Dreams to Kids' by Cesar Bacani and Murakami Mutsuko, CNN. 1996-04-19.
- ↑ Power Ranger - A Japanese Toymaker Invades Cyberspace by Cesar Bacani and Murakami Mutsuko, CNN. 1996-04-19.
External links
- Bandai Digital Entertainment's English page (archived 1998-01-24)
- Bandai Digital Entertainment's Japanese page (archived 1997-10-25)
- Bandai at Wikipedia